friendica/INSTALL

Installation guide

The following notes apply to alpha/beta releases. Some manual installation is 
required at this time. 


1. Requirements
	- Apache with mod-rewrite enabled and "Options All" so you can use a 
local .htaccess file
	- PHP > 5.1. The later the better. You'll need 5.3 for full openssl 
encryption support
	- PHP *command line* access with register_argc_argv set to true in the 
php.ini file
	- Mysql 5.x
	- cron
	
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2. Edit htconfig.php and change system settings. Rename to .htconfig.php

3. Import database.sql into your database with mysql command line or via phpmyadmin

4. Import updates.sql (if it exists) to catch any late-breaking devel changes

5. Put this directory into the root of your web server document area.
	- To use a subdir of your main site, set the 
	config variable $a->path to the relative subdir
	in .htconfig.php - for example to use http://example.com/test - 
	set $a->path to 'test'.
	- Everything will work much better if you can dedicate a domain 
	or subdomain so that you don't require an extra server path. 

6. Navigate to your site with a web browser and register an account.

7. Set up a cron task to run "php include/poller.php http://my.domain.name" once every 5-10 minutes.